Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Oil climbs on weaker dollar, outweighing OPEC+ supply worries
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Oil prices rose early on Tuesday as a drop in the U.S. dollar made crude a more attractive buy, paring losses of more than 4% incurred overnight on the prospect of...
Apr 05, 2021
Dollar drops with U.S. yields despite strengthening U.S. recovery
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar sank to an almost two-week low versus a basket of its peers on Tuesday, moving in tandem with retreating Treasury yields from recent peaks despite signs ...
Apr 05, 2021
Samurai dance teacher moves online as Tokyo Olympics bans foreign spectators
By Irene Wang TOKYO (Reuters) - There was a time when Koshiro Minamoto had hoped to welcome foreign tourists during the Olympics by introducing them to the arts of the samurai from a classroom in cent...
Apr 05, 2021
Death threats, hate speech turn Rohingya activist's Malaysia home into a prison
By Rozanna Latiff and Ebrahim Harris KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani, a Rohingya Muslim refugee and activist who fled persecution and ethnic strife in Myanmar, has called Malaysia hom...
Apr 05, 2021
Japan Airlines to retire 777 planes with Pratt & Whitney engines after United incident
(Reuters) - Japan Airlines Co Ltd (JAL) said it had retired its fleet of 13 Boeing Co 777s with Pratt & Whitney engines a year earlier than planned, having suspended operations in February after an en...
Apr 05, 2021
Audio app Clubhouse floats payment feature for creators
(Reuters) - Audio-chat app Clubhouse said on Monday it will launch a monetization feature for its creators on the platform and that it will not receive any payment from it. Starting Monday, all users ...
Apr 05, 2021
Venezuela creates military unit on Colombia border amid fighting
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has created a special military unit for an area on its border with Colombia that has been the center of clashes between troops and illegal armed groups since last month, ...
Apr 05, 2021
MLB roundup: Nelson Cruz, Twins slam Tigers
Nelson Cruz hit a pair of homers, including his 10th career grand slam, and drove in five runs as visiting the Minnesota Twins slugged their way to a 15-6 win over the Detroit Tigers on Monday. Willia...
Apr 05, 2021
Greenland holds election closely watched by global mining industry
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Greenland holds a parliamentary election on Tuesday that could help decide the fate of vast deposits of rare earth metals which international companies want to exploit. The Arct...
Apr 05, 2021
Japan Feb household spending hit by coronavirus curbs
By Kaori Kaneko and Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's household spending dropped for a third straight month in February, data showed on Tuesday, as emergency curbs to prevent the spread of the...
Apr 05, 2021
